If anyone can't wait, this book includes a DVD of the director's cut (incorporating "new scenes, an improved sound track with a totally new musical score by "Dr. Loco and Los Tiburones del Norte," English subtitles, and interviews with the director and other participants", all of which I'm guessing the Criterion release will draw upon), as well as a soundtrack CD.

Although, what's the story on this release? Amazon says it came out this past May. I can't find any information on who released it. Final nail in the coffin or is it a PD bandit?

Never seen that before. It's an MOD product, and there's no indication of who is releasing it. It's certainly a Janus film and is available on the Criterion Hulu channel. The Amazon product sounds like some bootlegger shenanigans to me.

What Andy said. The girl lying on a boat (though it's a car in the drawing) is definitely Monika. She was on the 2012 drawing. The other one that I'm speculating might be Monika was from the 2011 drawing. I'm thinking that like Y Tu Mama Tambien, they had planned to get it out in 2011 but didn't make it, so they hinted it again the following year. (And yeah, it's possible the same thing happened with Four Feathers on the 2010 and 2011 clues).